From the CCblogs Network Posts for September, 2011

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Blessed are the merciful

Sep 30, 2011 by Dora Dueck

I belong to a Mennonite-Catholic dialogue group which meets several times a year. Our assignment for this week’s meeting was a personal reflection on the Beatitudes, broadly, and then more specifically, in choosing one beatitude we were particularly “attracted” to at this point — in not more than seven minutes each! The contributions were varied, and all interesting.

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To lectionary or not to lectionary

Sep 28, 2011 by John Nash
In the church where I did my internship (and spent three years) we used the lectionary. In my last church, where I served for 4 years, we also used the lectionary. I like the lectionary and understand its strengths, of which there are many.
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What class are you?

Sep 26, 2011 by David Lewicki

This week Mitt Romney offhandedly called himself part of the "middle class." Mitt's net worth is estimated at $200 million. It seems clear that it was a pretty innocuous attempt at solidarity by a super-rich guy with "us" not-so-rich.

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The taxing truth

Sep 21, 2011 by Debra Dean Murphy

It’s not really about taxes. It’s about our increasing contempt for the poor.

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This is baptism?

Sep 20, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

There is much about how religion and Christianity are understood and publicly discussed in our post-Christian Canadian context that produces a mixture of bemusement and genuine puzzlement for me.

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Can only difficult action be called good and virtuous?

Sep 19, 2011 by Don Scrooby

The German poet Schiller said this: "How gladly I'd serve my friends, but alas, I do so with pleasure. And so I have this nagging feeling that it's unethical."

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Young adults are amoral heathens, but what’s new?

Sep 15, 2011 by Adam J. Copeland

This week’s Theology Pub, a gathering of 20/30-somethings The Project FM hosts at a local bar to talk about God and life, tackled the topic “Is my truth better than yours?” Though it came out a few days too late, David Brooks’ NY Times Op-Ed this week, “If it feels right,” would have been great pre-reading.

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Turning mourning into voyeurism

Sep 12, 2011 by Debra Dean Murphy

I’m sure it will end today when the news media go back to reporting on the most urgent question of our time — which GOP candidate will win the Tea Party debate on Monday night? — but this past weekend’s coverage of the tenth anniversay of 9/11 was relentless.

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Sooner or later it comes down to faith

Sep 08, 2011 by James F. McGrath

In one of my classes, after discussing a number of difficulties and issues related to the creation stories in Genesis, a student chimed in that sooner or later one simply has to have faith.

I didn’t disagree, but instead asked: What sort of faith, and faith in what?

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Respecting all kinds of work

Sep 06, 2011 by Diane Roth

The other day, I was doing a little "internet checking" and went into a website called "Viewshound", where anyone can publish their views and opinions on almost everything.